God’s Will Breakfast

This month Southport UMC celebrates 10 years of ministry with God’s Will Breakfast. We serve a hot breakfast to homeless and less fortunate people at Fletcher Place Community    Center every third Thursday.  Located at 1637 Prospect, this monthly mission is 6.6 miles and 15 minutes away from SUMC.  This takes roughly three hours of  a servant’s time each month. We are one of eleven churches and two businesses taking a turn to feed those who are hungry, providing hot breakfasts on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and hot evening meals on    Mondays and Wednesdays.

Since August of 2003, we have served 120 breakfasts almost always feeding more that 100 and once even feeding 200 people.  Calculating conservatively, that means we have served approximately 12,000 to 16,000 meals.

Serving in the manner is possible by your generous monetary donations to Faith Promise which funds the breakfast.  And there’s another contribution without which the mission couldn’t operate...that is the gifts of time and service from our servants.  It takes at least 10 people each month to do everything from shopping for food to preparing, serving the meals, cleaning up afterward, and even doing laundry.  Servants range in age from 3 to the 80’s.  Throughout the years we have been blessed when people have donated electric skillets, towels, storage bins, and numerous other items.

Through this mini mission experience, we are able to connect more fully with God and grow in our faith as we become the hands and feet to serve the people He loves.  There is always room for more servants who have a heart for this type of mission.

Rev. Jessi Langlie, executive director of Fletcher Place said, “Southport’s involvement has its own special signature meal– being willing to change things up a bit from the standard by having ‘tater tots.’ Although this seems rather simple or ordinary, it is a real special treat to the people that come to eat and they endearingly call SUMC ‘The Tater Tot Church.’ I have always found that when SUMC is serving a breakfast at the center that the cheerfulness meter goes way up.  It makes such a huge impact on the day for our meal attendees to have polite, cheerful conversations with people—often this won’t happen again throughout the day for our homeless friends.”


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